New restaurants go locavore, right down the floorboards

Check out the furniture inside for even more local touches at Farmhouse Local coming by spring

In the quest for the “local” title, some restaurants list the farms, ranches and purveyors they work with on their menus.

In the quest for more business, some purveyors list the restaurants they supply.

And now, it’s come down to local furniture.

Anyone wondering where they can sit on something Nor Cal-sourced while eating their Nor Cal-sourced cuisine has only to check with Petaluma’s Heritage Salvage. In a creative twist, the reclaimed furniture company boasts a long list of clients that have either purchased their products from the enormous warehouse lot on Petaluma Boulevard west of Hwy. 101 or had something custom made in Petaluma or at the shop’s San Francisco location.

Farmhouse Local, for example. The market and eatery is slated to open in Larkspur early this year, taking over the former Modern Cookie Co. space at Ward Street and Rice Lane. The owner is Jeanine Samuel, who introduced the cookie store in November of 2011, then closed this past July and is now transitioning the idea to a neighborhood artisan grocery rounded out with a café and wine bar.

Heritage Salvage owner Bug Deakin proudly details out what he does for each restaurant, including recent clients like Hopmonk Tavern in Novato (just one feature: chicken roosts repurposed into two lounge areas in the beer garden), and the new Parish Caféin Healdsburg (reclaimed floor joists from Valencia Street Garage in San Francisco, among other things).

For Farmhouse Local, his crew is working on tabletops from hand crafted recycled wood deck inserts, and accents from Sebastopol Orchard Co-op apple boxes.